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Silk is About... 1984

In 1984 and 1985, amazing things were happening in the British videogames industry. The following year, Japan would overshadow this with titles like Metroid and The Legend of Zelda that transformed videogames forever by having the ability to preserve player progression (the genesis of save games), but for these two years nobody anywhere in the world can match the inventiveness of British bedroom coders. One of these stories is well known... David Braben and Ian Bell made Elite, which with its vast feeling of player freedom would go on to directly influence Grand Theft Auto, and thus give birth to the open world genre as we now know it. But even thats not the whole story, because Elite is a descendent of tabletop role-playing games, specifically Traveller and Space Opera, and it was the infinite agency of the tabletop RPG that inspired Elites radical approach to digital agency. Its always a mistake to think videogames sprung into life from nowhere... they flowed down the river of artworks like everything else. Two other great precursors to the open world game that came out of these two years are both from 1985: Andrew Braybrooks Paradroid which I still suspect was an influence upon Grand Theft Autos car stealing (although I have not yet proved it), and Paul Woakes and Bruce Jordans Mercenary, that took Elites wireframe world and made a fantastic story out of it (Surely the faction system in the original GTA was inspired by this game...?). Paradroid is actually my favourite game of the last century, but I dont feel quite the sense of debt towards it as I do to another 1984 classic, perhaps because I got to work with Andrew Braybrook and Steve Turner in the waning years of Graftgold, and so our stories already intersected in some way. The last of the four harbingers of the open world is Mike Singletons The Lords of Midnight, the best adaptation of The Lord of the Rings to never have had the license. Singleton was not influenced by tabletop RPGs as far as I can tell, but was just interested in how to take the two threads of Tolkiens epic the adventure story and the epic war and represent them in the 48K of the ZX Spectrum, Europes most iconic home computer. I was spellbound by The Lords of Midnight, even though it was actually terribly difficult to play, and even more difficult to play well. My appreciation of what it achieved grew when I started giving talks about the history of games, and peaked when I finally sacked Ushgarak (lets not call it the Dark Tower of Mordor...) in Chris Wilds outstanding port of the game. Singleton did not rest on his laurels. The open-world-before-open-worlds concept was revisited in a sequel, Doomdarks Revenge (which also has a fantastic port by Chris Wild) and later in Midwinter and its sequel, games that moved into polygonal 3D and were equally astounding, perhaps even more so, since they attempted the immersive presence we now expect from first person games before the hardware was in any way up to the task of rendering them. But there was just something about that square-based world in The Lords of Midnight that maintained its magic. Its a mystical wonder that can also be found in Eye of the Beholder and The Bards Tale, which also built their world on squares, although both had so much more computational resources available that they cannot possibly count as the technical achievement that Mike Singletons classic was. I felt a debt of honour to him. I dont really know why, but I always have. In the 1990s, when I was working on the Discworld games, I tried to make a game in that style, but it was impossible to make the argument for it then. Its not that much easier now, to be honest! But at least now we have a thriving indie community who sometimes welcome the strange and wonderful into their hearts. So I made Silk, to pay off that debt to Mike Singleton. Its why even though the game is set in 200AD, its also inextricably about 1984.


[ 2019-09-30 16:10:08 CET ] [ Original post ]

Silk
ihobo games Developer
Huey Games Publisher
2019-10-11 Release
Game News Posts: 13
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Mostly Positive (14 reviews)
Public Linux Depots:
  • Silk Depot Linux [2.88 G]
Enter the biggest handcrafted open world of all time, fifty times larger than Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall! Explore three million square miles of uncharted terrain from Roman Damascus to Three Kingdoms China in an exploration RPG that transports you onto the Ancient Silk Road of 200AD as an intrepid traveller or a ruthless conqueror.

From a parallel dimension where they still make keyboard-controlled, square-based RPGs in 2019 comes the new game from Chris Bateman (Discworld Noir, Ghost Master, Heretic Kingdoms). Can you puzzle out the secrets of the four distinct challenges await you in Silk?

  • Explore the vast expanse of the Silk Road in an epic journey across dangerous wilderness as The Traveller.
  • Overthrow Rome's greatest enemy, the powerful Parthian Empire, as The Rebel.
  • Master the art of raiding to capture the fortunes of rival kingdoms as The Warlord.
  • Carve out a trading empire between the brutal battlegrounds of the Silk Road as The Noble.

One colossal world, four unique challenges. Do you have what it takes to master Silk?

  • Level up any seven of the thousands of Advisors in the game as you hire your perfect party, each of which unlocks hundreds of unique choices in the world
  • Battle, Trade, or Explore: play the game your way as you amass a well-provisioned caravan or build your own renegade army
  • Discover the lost genre of tile-based RPGs (Eye of the Beholder, The Bard’s Tale) remastered for the twenty first century

MINIMAL SETUP
  • OS: Ubuntu 16.04+
  • Processor: SSE2 instruction set supportMemory: 4 GB RAM
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUP
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  • Processor: SSE2 instruction set supportMemory: 4 GB RAM
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
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